That’s just as gruesome as it sounds, and Devon will do anything to ensure his safety, even provide sustenance for him in the form of fresh brains. Even rarer is what her son is – a mind eater. Female book eaters like Devon are rare and are seen largely for their ability to give birth, allowing the species of book eaters to continue. When we meet Devon she’s living at the end of her means, taking care of her son Cai. Her brothers grew up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all book eater women-was raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.īut real life doesn’t always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.ĭevon Fairweather is part of an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom spy novels are a peppery snack, and romance novels are sweet and delicious. Cover art by Su Blackwell Design by Jamie Stafford-Hill
This peculiar diet allows the book eaters to gain all the knowledge between the pages. As the title implies, the main character Devon Fairweather is a book eater, she is human in visage only and she is a member of one of the six families of book eaters who sustain themselves by literally eating books and consuming ink. But the characters in Suny Dean’s debut novel, The Book Eaters take that idea to an extreme degree. Biblioholics, voracious readers, that’s what some of us who read upwards of fifty or even one hundred books per year call ourselves.
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